Open Source Python System Software

DenyHosts is a python program that automatically blocks ssh attacks by adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny. DenyHosts will also inform Linux administrators about offending hosts, attacked users and suspicious logins. This project is being actively developed on GitHub (https://github.com/denyhosts)

Anti-procrastination website and application blocker with scheduling. Perfect for students and parents alike. A free and open-source alternative to Cold Turkey. Made by Dang Nam Anh, Truong Duc Quan and Trieu Tran Duc Tri.

The best of Chromium and Ubuntu. Cub Linux is a project to replicate the Chromium OS experience on an Ubuntu Linux base system. Cub Linux is free to download and use forever.

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

This has a Python ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) server and IRML parser. Using this, a web proxy can do rule-based adaptation of content before delivery to clients. Has a Python proxylet API and squid-icap-client code too.

Emon is another remote server monitoring application, but this time you are able to start your monitoring in the terminal easily. You do not need to install any applications on the monitoring servers, because Emon uses SSH and /proc directory to get the monitoring data. All you need to do is just configure Emon in XML and create an SSH user. After configuration, you are ready to monitor ping, dns, ports, url, CPU, RAM, SWAP, disk, traffic and log files of multiple servers in the terminal. If something goes wrong, Emon will send email to the admin. Emon is able to send the statistics (dropouts and graphs) to the admin.

Jake is a console based app written in python and qt4. Plugins will let you do almost anything, for example, search in google, translate, view images, talk with it (aka AI bot). Also, skining system will let you choose how should jake look.

Kojoney is an easy of use, secure, robust and powerfull Honeypot for the SSH Service written in Python. With the kojoney daemon are distributeds other tools such as kip2country (IP to Country) and kojreport, a tool to generate reports from the log fi

pypt-offline is a utility for people using Debian (and distros based on debian) on a disconnected machine. It helps in downloading the required data from another, high bandwidth Windows/Linux/Mac box.

PanDAV is a project comprising of a WebDAV server library (in Python) and a simple WebDAV file server, written to be extremely easy to use and extend.

PySSH is a Python module for programmatically controlling ssh and scp. NOTE: This project is no longer maintained. Please consider using Paramiko (https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko) instead.

py-rrdtool is a Python module provides an interface to RRDTool, the well known graphing/logging tool.

Create your own distributed computer that can distributed javascript based applications to any computer with a web browser, headless browser or node.js installation. For more information and updates please see our website - http://reorjs.com.

WikipediaFS: View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files.

UDPonTCPproxy proxies UDP traffic from a set of ports over TCP tunnels. Server side NAT's the UDP ports to a chosen destination, then sends back destination's replies. Usefull to tunnel UDP over SSH tunnels to things like license or game servers.

Using this plugin-based framework, you can instantly start working on the *brain* of your bot (irc bot, chatterbot, robot, ...). With support for db, irc, logging and programming-language independent plugins, users can easily enhance the functionality.

Compiler for message-passing network protocols, currently based on UDP. APC is written in Python and produces C code. It includes a C run-time library.

Auto Proxy Filter Test (APFT) automates the testing of safe and unsafe URLs against a content filtering proxy (such as Dansguardian) and helps prevent regressions. APFT is useful to people who are designing filter rules.

A Console-based BitTorrent Client with built-in scheduler for handling multiple sessions. It is designed to manage sessions in queue easily without heavy-weight GUI. External module can search for new torrents in trackers and submit it automatically.

Cheshire3 is a fast Z39.50, SRW, XML search engine, written in Python for extensability and using C libraries for speed. Next generation of the Cheshire system (http://cheshire.berkeley.edu) and designed around a distributable, object oriented model.

CoyoteMonitoring is a Zope-based web interface for managing NetFlow Collectors, data, and graphs. Inspired by Cacti's capabilities with SNMP, CoyoteMonitoring aims to provide rich and useful features for organizations requiring NetFlow management.

A Python script that parses and mails ipchains, iptables and snort logfiles into the DSHIELD format for submission to DShield.org

DiskAt is disk/media catalogue app supporting multiple categories per item, good search and features which allow to use it as Movie/DVD/etc database. Written with PHP/Python/SQLite.

Document summarization system. By adding document content to system, user queries will generate a summary document containing the available information to the system.

FreeGee is an integrated application framework for Python and C++. Included modules are: Python (scripting), PostgreSQL (database), wxWidgets/wxWindows (GUI), GnuPG (crypto), omniORB (OO middleware), Apache (Web), and other fine tools (see Home Page).